Our memories become ever shorter because our consciousness is overburdened by the media's continuous stream of information. The smell of decomposing corpses and death vanishes as
soon as the pictures fade from the screen. It is the aim of the Pillar of Shame to perpetuate the memory of the atrocity and its victims - to serve
as a reminder in history.

Kim Rune is a Danish photographer, who works for a Danish news paper. He is also a good friend of Galschiot and made this black/white photo series of the Pillar of Shame, during the
making of it.